Hi everyone,
I bought this kind of tree branch since Christmas. I thought they were dead branches and I put them in a vase as a Christmas bouquet with just water. After Christmas and New year, I intended to clean up the vase and found out that they are still alive.
Then I change water daily for them. Now they have more young green leaves.
I don't know what type of tree branches and leaves they are and how to plant and save them?
Can anyone help me to find out my questions?
Kinda remind me of Forsythia.
Those don't look like they have opposite arrangement of leaves, which would fit Forsythia sp.
Where and why did you buy them? What was the attractive quality? Were there flowers present, or fruit? Give us some additional clues to help in the ID.
I suspect that the warmth in a house and internal resources of the plant have allowed the dormant buds to be "forced" into growth. Without roots to uptake additional resources (besides some water through the exposed cambium layer of the cut stem), those new leaves will likely collapse and die soon.
I was imagining a Prunus sp. of some sort (if flowering) or an Ilex verticillata if laden with persistent fruit. The images shown provide no evidence.
